coronavirus This Vietnamese pop song about coronavirus is my new jam Thom Dunn

picks 'Bikini airline' places $6.5 billion order for 50 additional jets Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Rhasspy: a free/open voice assistant toolkit that's fully offline Cory Doctorow

algorithmic racism The Chinese version of 23andMe purports to tell you what percentage Uighur you are John Struan

explainer videos What would happen if you dodged the draft in the United States? Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets This filter and coffee set lets you have pour-over on the go Boing Boing's Shop

mistakes Watch a locomotive tear down Vietnam's terrifying "train street" Rob Beschizza

trumpism Multilingual "red cards" to help immigrants assert their rights during ICE shakedowns Cory Doctorow

History An interactive timeline of race categories in the US Census Cory Doctorow

Kids New Vietnamese bridge appears held aloft by a giant hand Andrea James

exit scammers Vietnamese ICO scammers disappear with $660 million Mark Frauenfelder

four legs good A pig and his five-dog posse Clive Thompson

videos One week after release, iPhone X's Face ID reportedly defeated by a $150 mask Cory Doctorow

class war Foxconn has a long history of lying about its plans to open plants and create jobs Cory Doctorow

politics Vietnam complained of "toxic" anti-government Facebook content, now says Facebook has committed to help censor Xeni Jardin

photography Fascinating documentary on combat photojournalist Catherine LeRoy Andrea James

graphic novels An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam Marykate Smith Despres

video How to scale a wall with a long stick and a friend Andrea James

picks North Korean diplomat sought in Kim Jong-nam's death, hinting at Kim Jong-un's involvement Xeni Jardin

music Kronos Quartet's Kronos Festival 2017 this weekend in San Francisco David Pescovitz